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CNN Calls Out Michigan’s El-Sayed for Previous ‘Defund the Police’ Statements

CNN is calling out Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat candidate for Michigan’s Senate seat, for his shifting views on the “defund the police” movement.

Before launching his Senate campaign, El-Sayed deleted his X history, including numerous posts touting the “defund the police” movement, according to CNN. He then claimed he didn’t advocate for defunding the police.

“I want to be clear, I actually never, never called for defunding,” El-Sayed told The Detroit News in November 2025. “My goal in that conversation was to help everybody to understand what we were talking about.”

In an “Inside Politics Sunday” interview this week, however, CNN’s Manu Raju played a clip of El-Sayed calling for defunding the police in a radio interview from 2020 before asking El-Sayed why he claimed he never advocated to defund the police.

“I believe that we do need to defund the police insofar as defunding the police is disinvesting in the means of incarcerating someone or killing them on the streets,” El-Sayed said in the clip.

El-Sayed accused Raju of fixating on the word “defund,” and asked if the reporter was opposed to investing in libraries and public services, which El-Sayed had suggested in the clip should receive some of the funding allocated to the police.

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